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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lack of Clean Groundwater a Health Threat
By Ignatius Banda
BULAWAYO - As the rainy season approaches, and sewage from pit latrines seep further into the Zimbabwe's groundwater, Irene Ngubeni will be at risk as the country faces another possible cholera outbreak.
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SOUTH AFRICA: We Have Land Rights but No Water Rights - Farmers
By Fidelis Zvomuya
JOHANNESBURG - Thandi Sihadi stands next to a dry tap. As a maize and dairy farmer in one of South Africa’s driest districts, the lack of running water is nothing new to her.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Too Much Water and Not Enough to Drink
By Letuka Mahe
MASERU - Mmankosana Letsoela has been queuing since 5am to collect water. You would think that arriving so early at the bore-hole water pump; she would be the first in line.
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SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Back Policy With Funding
By Kelvin Kachingwe
MANSA, Zambia - Water- and sanitation-related diseases cost communities dearly, particularly in rural Zambia.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Neglected Land Washing Away
By Patrick Burnett

MASERU - Damage to wetlands high in Lesotho's Maluti mountains has impacts on the health of the whole of the Orange-Senqu river system.
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AGRICULTURE: Can South Africa Afford to Export Virtual Water?
By Patrick Burnett
KAKAMAS, South Africa - Near the banks of the Orange River, farm manager Le Roux Viljoen sends off an SMS to a weather station and receives an almost instantaneous response telling him the temperature, wind direction and estimated evaporation index.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Less Water More Money
By Zahira Kharsany
JOHANNESBURG - South Africans may have to start paying more for water if they do not manage their water resources efficiently.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Orange River Wetlands Need a Lifetime to Recover
By Patrick Burnett
ALEXANDER BAY, South Africa - Much of the internationally-recognised wetland surrounding the Orange River mouth has lost its rich green colour. Situated close to long-standing diamond mining operations, the river's mouth has been treated with environmental disregard for decades.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Journey of a Working River: the Orange-Senqu
By Patrick Burnett
KATSE, Lesotho - In the steep valleys of Lesotho's Maluti mountains, women carry yellow plastic buckets of water across fields of dark-brown earth; a group of men form a human chain to pass rocks between them to build a small dam wall across a mountain stream; clothes are being washed in rivers; and men draped in blankets ride donkeys or horses along the roadside.
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WATER-LESOTHO: Compensation Victory for Displaced Villagers
By Limpho Molise

MASERU - Taelo Motseki had every reason to wear a broad smile despite the afternoon chill. His family along with 21 others displaced by Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project at Ha Mohale had won a decade-long struggle seeking compensation.
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ZAMBIA: Farmers Resort to Human Waste for Fertiliser
By Lewis Mwanangombe
LUSAKA - The economy's down, the price of fertiliser's up. And Zambian farmers are stealing sewage for their vegetable gardens.
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Q&A: Regional Prescriptions for Water Management
Patrick Burnett interviews LENKA THAMAE, executive secretary of the Orange-Senqu River Commission
MASERU - The Orange-Senqu River has a one million square kilometre basin that covers Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. The water it provides is crucial to industry in South Africa, but is also relied on by farmers and domestic users.
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MALAWI: Questions Over Water Stats
By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE - A set of new research data contests the Malawian government's claims that nearly all of the country’s urban citizens have access to clean water and sanitation.
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African governments struggle to curb industrial water pollution - Zenzele Ndebele reports.
In Women's words: Health Systems Failing Women
Naseem Ackbarally speaks to Adawoko Williams about community involvement in water issues.
Naseem Ackbarally speaks to Matsepo Makhubela, Strategy and Policy analyst with South African Water Affairs.
Zenzele Ndebele speaks to Richard Heldon, business analyst about water funding in Africa.
African Ministers meet to discuss water challenges in Africa,  Zenzele Ndebele and Naseem Ackburally  report.
Climate Change is already drying up Africa's rivers, bust  Zenzele Ndebele finds out the science is not yet precise.
Zenzele Ndebele speaks to Annabel Waitita, from the Institute of Environment, about women and water resources, during the 2and Africa Water Water Week, in Midrand, South Africa.
Jamillah Mwanjisi - Excutive Secretary of the African Civil Society on Water  (ANEW), Jamillah Mwanjisi tells Naseem Ackburally, that  corruption is still robbing millions of Africans access to water.
Lameck Masina speaks to women in rural parts of Malawi, who tell him how   tap water has improved their lives.
Zenzele Ndebele finds that generating income and maintaining an improved water source go hand in hand in Bulawayo.
Phiri residents won a water rights case against the government. Rejane Claasen investigates


Time to focus on underground pollution
By Lani van Vuuren
THE pollution of South Africa's surface water has received much attention over the years, but degradation of underground supplies has gone largely unnoticed - until now.
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Borehole maintenance challenges in southern Africa
By Barbara Lopi
Clean groundwater is vital to at least 70 percent of the population in southern Africa, yet too many wells and boreholes are not operated efficiently, or are simply abandoned.
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AFRICA MUST BE HEARD ON CLIMATE CHANGE
by Wangari Maathai
While in wealthy countries the looming climate crisis is a matter of concern, in Africa, which has hardly contributed to climate change, it is a matter of life and death, writes Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, member of Kenya’s Parliament and the founder of the Green Belt Movement.

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